Sometimes in Excel, we are just an innocent bystander when enthusiasm gets the better of people and they start drifting around Excel, inserting data in places where ...
Following a wide demand, I also wrote a post about getting data from Excel files in a folder. You can read it here and I recently followed up with a post on how to ...
In my work as a Trainer and also as a Data Scientist (I love that term), Shortcuts in Excel are a vital part of doing things efficiently. This shortcut helps you ...
I can still remember when I learned about the WORKDAY function. I found it very useful and used it regularly but since I also do a lot of project calculating in ...
A while back I wrote about multiple ways to get quarters from dates. Even “manual” quarters (starting with any months you like). You can read that post ...
This is what happens when someone has too much time and Excel 🙂 Happy holidays and all the best in 2015 to all Excel lovers!
In short, times in Excel are decimal numbers between 0 and 1 that show you the percentage of the day that has past. Now with that in mind let’s calculate two ...
This post will talk about the way that Excel sorts data and the Case Sensitive sorting it offers. If we look at this data And sort it in ascending order (A-Z), we ...
Let’s say we want to create a series of dates from 1/1/2013 to 12/31/2013 but with a catch. We want to leave out all dates that occur on weekends. So all ...
Just so we know where this is heading, this is the end result And here is the file with the end result, you can download it and play around with pressing F9. ...
I’m only guessing, but I think that anybody who wants to use Excel at an above average level, will have to learn at least a few keyboard shortcuts to get ...
Very often, we will conduct a more or less pointless discusions with our Excel :), but not many people are aware that Excel in fact can talk. It can do so from Excel ...
As promised in the Pragmatism vs. Purity in Excel article from last week, this week’s article will explain the following array formula ...
One of the greatest things about Excel is that with its endless array of tools and commands it almost always offers multiple ways of achieving a certain goal. ...
On many occasions we would like to somehow get the dates belonging to the last day of current, previous or any other month, the first day of this month or any day of ...
Very often you will find yourself in a position where you wish to either move efficiently through the workbook or you wish to select only cells containing certain ...
Probably the longest title of all times, but it leads to something great. First let’s explain Power Query. Power Query is an AddInn for Excel and part of ...
Can you create a Data Validation Dropdown list that uses data from another workbook as a source? This question has been proposed to me continuously since I published ...
If some pictures are hard to view, you can get the PDF of the article The Pivot option in Power Query. With the latest update of Power Query AddInn for Excel quite a ...
We have a dish where I come from (Slovenia), called Minestrone. It’s interesting since there is no single recipe for it. It’s made from whatever ...
One day as I was giving a basic(!!!!) Excel training, my mind got sort of blown. We were discussing the use of A1:A100 in the Name Box for the selection of a range ...
Our goal here, is to create a dropdown list by using Data Validation, where the contents of the list will be determined by another Data Validation Dropdown list. ...
There are many more or less unknown tools in Excel. One of those is definitely the Camera Tool. Imagine the following scenario. You have two sheets in Excel. On one ...
One might think that analyzing data with a Pivot table is hard, but Unpivot a Pivot table proves to be even harder. But Power Query or better yet a Query editor ...